TwilightVulpine @ TwilightVulpine @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 913Joined 2 yr. ago
And here you are talking about homemade surgery when the topic of the day are pills and disability aids. All you have said in this thread is bait and switch.
...what part of the comparison you have issue with? That trans people are a marginalized group, or that what they are seeking is not nearly as harmful, yet authorities making an issue out of it regardless.
The very first thing I showed you is that the legitimate channels are unusable.
But hey, it wouldn't be the first time "illegal drug sales" are used as a pretext to attack undesirable populations.
Always lovely when people pull the "it's a tiny percent of people so whatever happens to them doesn't matter". So are disabled people. So are people with rare illnesses.
But who do you think is even going after gender-affirming hormones in the first place? It's an unbearable risk for everyone else but whatever happens to trans people without it doesn't matter. Funny how that is...
Except that the UK is also obstructing proper avenues to get them too.
Transgender patients facing a years-long wait for NHS gender care are being handed a "death sentence", says the mum of a trans woman who took her own life.
Data obtained by Newsnight and analysed by the BBC found it would take 10 years to clear the backlog of people waiting for first appointments in gender care.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68602939
Mind you that gender affirming treatment can be the difference between life and death for trans people. So, they can't rely on public services, and they can't take matters into their own hands. So, the idea here is "be rich or don't be trans"?
I feel incredibly bad for small creators that still rely on it for an audience and can't simply afford to market themselves without it.
It's an incredibly ironic stance to take
No?
The way you are speaking it's as if they mean to close down the whole thing. There is a whole rest of the world for them to operate in. Sure losing the US market would be a huge detriment, but the owners still might rather have it everywhere else, than keep it running in the US in someone else's hands.
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Windows 11 made my girlfriend's laptop so slow, even she asked me to install Linux, and she is not even a techy type.
Does it seem to you that people are becoming more likely to verify sources?
Nevermind, like I just said before, how exactly do you verify fake porn with the source? Who is going to be volunteering their intimate pictures as reference? Or, do you really think all that it takes to avoid all issues is for the victim to say "that's fake, it's not me"?
Frankly, that sounds like pure wishful thinking to me.
This is a consideration that a lot of people are glossing over. Schlubby dudes might not even be affected to it at all. It's not going to be widespread for everyone.
But it doesn't. Nobody who is harassed or has their prospects undermined because of AI fakes is helped by repeating that. Especially because as the technology advances the only way to verify its legitimacy will be to compare it with real intimate pictures, which the person cannot show without being exposed to the exact same treatment.
It also doesn't help that gossip can do all that harm as well so the point is moot.
Trying to point out that this is illogical and that nudes shouldn't even be such a big deal is an uphill battle against human emotional, social and cultural tendencies. It would take much more than some offhand comments to affect it at all, and I wouldn't count on that shift happening before the harms of AI fakes spread.
Wild that since the rise of the internet it's like they decided advertising laws don't apply anymore.
But Copyright though, it absolutely does, always and everywhere.
It's work to do anything, but we routinely see small indie studios managing to release player-hosted games just fine, while large studios don't bother. Even though it also costs them more to run all the servers on their own. So I'm not so sure it's just a matter of saving costs.
They would never have such expectation if they simply allowed players to host it to begin with. This used to be the norm, until companies figured out that it's easier to control, monetize and force obsolescence to push players into a newer product if they are the only ones hosting servers.
Well, when companies are cutting off people's purchases and wiping works from our cultural history, a little bit of disregard for the law that is complicit with it is pretty much necessary.
Say, it's through copyright violation that we can still play games from Mario Maker 1 even though the servers were shut down. People figured out how to copy it even though they weren't allowed to.
If this is wrong, maybe the law should be fixed to provide a proper path.
We "all helped" as in people in charge gave us no choice and we didn't choose the choices we didn't have.
Hell, even then there's still people fighting to preserve and host games on their own regardless.